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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Federal Follies

I’m going to miss Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) when he retires after this year. Coburn picked up the mantle of William Proxmire (D-WI), who issued 168 “Government Fleece” awards during his long career.

After Senators Proxmire and Coburn, who is going to tell us how our federal government spent $385,000 out of Obama’s $1 trillion stimulus money to study duck genitalia? Part of me didn’t want to know that, but part of me did. What little confidence I have left in our federal government as presently constituted has diminished with the knowledge, and that isn’t good. If I do my part to spread that knowledge of how government spends our tax dollars, however, it may motivate more people in my small corner of northern New England to vote for small government candidates. That would be a good thing.

The knowledge was also cause for amusement when I read a writer in the liberal Washington Post try to justify the duck genitalia study and other ridiculous federal spending. The writer went on to justify the the disbursement of $3 million to Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (where I was born) to discover why most lesbians are fat. It’s the fourth year of a six-year-long study. I could have told them the answer for a lot less. Lesbians are fat because they eat too much and don’t exercise enough. The same goes for all of us.

The $1 trillion “stimulus” didn’t turn our economy around and Obamacare hasn’t been what anyone would call a success, but our federal government has been effective in its foreign policy, right?

If I still had any confidence in government, it disappeared after hearing our president’s speech last week. Our community-organizer commander-in-chief described going to war in the Middle East without calling it a war. Then there were follow-up remarks by his Secretary of State, John Kerry, who said, “War” is the “wrong terminology” to describe what the president is doing. Democrats prefer calling it a “kinetic military action”.

This was the president who got elected promising to end the “War in Iraq.” He withdrew US troops, against the advice of his generals and National Security officials, believing that would “end the war.” But it didn’t, of course. Now he wants to go back into Iraq without calling it war. Why is “war” too strong a word for Obama and Kerry? Don’t they lead the Democrat Party that accuses conservatives of waging a “War on Women”? If it’s “war” when conservative refuse to pay for abortion-inducing drugs under Obamacare, why isn’t it “war” when he pledges to destroy tens of thousands of Islamic terrorists? To make it even more confusing, Obama’s Press Secretary Josh Earnest[ly] said it was a war - a “War with ISIL.” Then Obama’s Pentagon said it was a war too. What are Americans supposed to think of all this?

The Obama White House also avoids using the words “Islam” or “Muslim” in the same sentence as “Terrorism.” Last week he claimed the Islamic State is “not Islamic.” This semantic legerdemain is at least consistent with past efforts at divorcing Islam and terrorism. When radical Muslim Major Nidal Hasan shot more than forty US soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas and killing thirteen, it wasn’t Muslim terrorism according to Obama’s Homeland Security Department. It was “workplace violence” that had nothing to do with Islam. Never mind Hasan’s shouts of “Allahu Akbar!” while he shot our soldiers. Pay no attention to Hasan’s numerous email exchanges with Anwar Al Awlaki - the leader of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Never mind Awlaki's killing by an Obama-ordered drone strike because he was a Muslim terrorist. The Fort Hood massacre was only “workplace violence.” If you think it had anything to do with Islam, you must be a racist Islamophobe.

Recent studies show.....Buckets of US gub'mint money given to study effects of alcohol on monkeys, under the theory that it might give insight to human biological effects.

As if 4000 years, and an ASTONISHING amount of previous "grant" money, was simply wasted.

Merely a sardonic reinforcement of the "helpful" aspects of gub'mint refered to in the piece, useful when the phrase "fair share" and "infrastructure" are cited by "smart as a post" (dupes/useful idiots) folk reciting the only script that has been provided to them.

Due to my age, and "experiential" pattern recognition I suspect, I'm most often supportive of the themes our kind host regularly puts fourth. When I DO have a bone to pick, it will be clearly prefaced with "Tom, you're a big poopy pants, and here's why.....", or something like that. BTW: the whole gobbledy- gook "code" thingy is from the way I "register" (open ID)to sign in. It "means" nothing. THAT's why I always sign what I write at the end (*sigh* unless I forget), unlike SOME of Tom's more obsessively hydrophobic uh...fans.

*poop* forgot. It was ALSO a dim not to an oldexpression "If you had a hundred monkeys in a room with a hundred typewriters, eventually ONE of them will pound out Shakespeare".Kinda' like "appointed" gub'mint rent-seekers (economics term). CaptDMO

ISIS? Seriously? Have you seen the so-called beheading videos? Couldn't be more faked. A joke really.Hopefully you and the rest of the half wits in this country, that includes any and all participating in two party politics, will wake the fu$& up before it's too late.